9/4/12 1:39 PM EDT

“The fact Obama uses these characters to joke about this issue while on the other hand continuing to arrest people he’s appealing to is really disingenuous,” Morgan Fox, communications director for the Marijuana Policy Project, told TPM Tuesday. “As president he conducts more raids on medical marijuana facilities than Bush.”

The “Harold and Kumar” movies are inextricably tied to pot, which is featured or mentioned more or less continuously in each of their three films. At one point, the two characters smoke marijuana with an actor portraying President Bush, who they accuse of hypocrisy for arresting drug offenders.

“Kal’s been a longtime supporter of the president,” Obama press secretary Ben LaBolt tells TPM. “He’s done more work organizing in states, getting college kids mobilized, than anybody else and we’re proud to have him lead our youth efforts”

Marijuana advocates are particularly upset with Obama over what they see as a broken White House promise to leave medical marijuana dispensaries alone in states where it is legal.